75_Eurydike

75 Eurydike

75 Eurydike

Main-belt asteroid

Eurydike (minor planet designation: 75 Eurydike) is a large main-belt asteroid. It has an M-type spectrum and a relatively high albedo and may be rich in nickel-iron.[5] Eurydike was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on September 22, 1862. It was second of his numerous asteroid discoveries and is named after Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. The asteroid is orbiting the Sun for a period of 4.37 years and completes a rotation about its axis every 5.4 hours.

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    'Eurydice' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
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    "75 Eurydike". JPL Small-Body Database. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. SPK-ID: 20000075. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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    Fienga, A.; Avdellidou, C.; Hanuš, J. (February 2020). "Asteroid masses obtained with INPOP planetary ephemerides". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492 (1). doi:10.1093/mnras/stz3407.
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    Asteroid Data Sets Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
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    Busarev, V. V. (January 1998). "Spectral Features of M-Asteroids: 75 Eurydike and 201 Penelope". Icarus. 131 (1): 32–40. Bibcode:1998Icar..131...32B. doi:10.1006/icar.1997.5847.
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